Common Core State Standards
Content Area: English
Grade level: 11 & 12
Domain: Writing
Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard #5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
What understandings are desired?
Students will understand that:(U)
•strong writing is achieved through planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or changing the approach of the work.
•establishing the most significant vein of their work and developing a voice and thesis that portrays it is essential to a well-developed piece.
•considering the intended audience is imperative to making your voice, as a writer, heard.
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:(Q)
•How can I revise, edit, or rewrite my work to strengthen its potency?
•Why is my thesis significant to what I am hoping to achieve?
•How is my audience going to respond to the manner in which I portrayed my view?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know:(K)
Students will be able to:(S)
•Sequences and timelines:
How to establish a factually sound and clearly focused persuasive essay.
•Terminology:
Claims, radical revisions, reverse outlining, thesis.
•Critical details:
How vocabulary and tone influence the audiences interpretation of the persuasive essay.
•express their voice in a concise and supported manner.
•evaluate work for improvements to support their understanding of revision techniques.
•produce an outline.
•infer their perspective professionally and respectively.
•consider the opposing opinion and use it to strengthen their work.
•recognize the intended audience.
Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results
Content Area: English
Grade level: 11 & 12
Domain: Writing
Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard #5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
What understandings are desired?
•establishing the most significant vein of their work and developing a voice and thesis that portrays it is essential to a well-developed piece.
•considering the intended audience is imperative to making your voice, as a writer, heard.
What essential questions will be considered?
•Why is my thesis significant to what I am hoping to achieve?
•How is my audience going to respond to the manner in which I portrayed my view?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
How to establish a factually sound and clearly focused persuasive essay.
•Terminology:
Claims, radical revisions, reverse outlining, thesis.
•Critical details:
How vocabulary and tone influence the audiences interpretation of the persuasive essay.
•evaluate work for improvements to support their understanding of revision techniques.
•produce an outline.
•infer their perspective professionally and respectively.
•consider the opposing opinion and use it to strengthen their work.
•recognize the intended audience.
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.